The most popular keywords people use to promote web hosting provider's sites are: 'hosting', 'web hosting', 'shared hosting', 'PHP hosting', 'MySQL hosting' and of course 'professional hosting'. Less popular key words are 'low cost hosting', 'qualitative hosting' and at last 'web site hosting'. Not the best but still popular keywords are 'free hosting', 'domain name registration', 'free domain', 'hosting plans', 'video hosting', 'game hosting'.

It is easier to put all these keywords in one phrase - qualitative professional PHP MySQL CGI hosting, domain name registration and free domain.

Cigarettes - fires in the data center!

The first and most destructive fire occurred in the Ukraine in 2010 where burned largest data center. In the evening of March 27 in Odessa in the data center of the biggest hosting provider Hosting.ua started a fire. The Hosting.ua is one of the largest and best-known web hosting providers. Company reported that in this data center were installed one of the best and the most modern fire-extinguishing systems, but for some reason they didn't work.

The company employees reported that they received the fire signals from the sensors, so, the part of the warning system worked, but the fire extinguishing not. Obviously, that in the hosting data-center can't be applied water in extinguishing systems, but firefighters which arrived on the scene, simply had no other options for fire fighting except of special foam and water. As a result, data servers suffered from fire, and water. In addition, during the fire extinguishing were knocked out all the windows in the building.

The exact extent of the damage is still unknown. Not worked, tens of thousands of sites hosted on servers of this company. In addition to direct customers of Hosting.ua, were affected the customers of smaller providers whose servers were located in the Hosting.ua data center.

According to unofficial information, the fire extinguishing system didn't work, not because of technical problems, but because they were manually disabled. They were often switched on and company employees simply turned them off. The police expects that the systems were disabled manually because company workers often smoked near the fire-extinguishing systems so they were often switched on.

Smoking workers were fined and were forbidden to buy cigarettes during working hours even cheap cigarettes online in office, because this leads to more frequent smoking on the workplace or outside, which worsens working capacity and leads to new risks of fire.

The second fire occurred in a data center of a large American hosting center "The Planet" where because of fire had been disabled over 9000 servers which served worldwide hundreds of thousands of databases, electronic mail systems and websites.

A major U.S. hoster "The Planet" reported about fire in its data center, located in Texas. According to the company, the fire was caused by a shortcut circuit in the company's control room, then the flames spread to a few walls, partition walls and equipment. As a result of fire, according to preliminary data, the server hardware have not been harmed and customers data have not been lost, but the company remained de-energized for at least a few days.

"First investigations indicate that a short circuit was caused by overloading of the electric current in the network". The company indemnified the damages to all affected customers in accordance with the terms stipulated in the agreement.

This year the most popular key words people use to find hosting providers are: 'hosting', 'web hosting', 'shared hosting', 'hosting plans', 'PHP hosting' and 'MySQL hosting'. However, last year the most popular keywords were 'free hosting' and 'free web hosting'. The quality of some free hosting services is not very low but still there is a list of disadvantages, take for example advertisement free hosting provider places on your site(s). It makes such providers unacceptable for some enterprises and companies. The reason for this lies in a chance for your web site to become a place where your competitor will show there ad. Moreover such ad banners may spoil your web site design.

If you want to choose a reliable, professional and high-quality hosting with the best up-time you should pay attention to:

1. How old the hosting provider is and for how long it has been providing its customers with hosting services.

2. Make sure, that the hosting provider you like is legitimate and registered as a legal entity. You can find such information in the 'Payments and contracts' part.

3. Take into account the number of existing customers of the hosting provider. The hosting provider which tries to hide such information is usually not very reliable. Experienced web hosting provider should provide you with at least 1000 customer's site links. These links are the way to check the level of the reliability and performance of hosting provider's servers.

4. Whether the hosting provider has not a virtual but a real office. It is advisable the office to be located not in the suburb.

5. Whether there is a phone number mentioned. It is advisable for the provider to have several phone numbers of managers and support service.

6. The hosting provider has to have its own server equipment and this equipment is to be installed in the data centres located in the same city as the office of the hosting provider is. If the data centres and office of the same hosting provider are situated in different cities or even countries, this hosting is undoubtedly not professional. Moreover, most of such hosting providers are resellers or partners of other companies and are able to guarantee you nothing.

7. What is the price for the hosting services? The minimal prices for 'php hosting' services start from $2 or so. The cheaper hosting plans don't include PHP, CGI, MySQL. Of course, it is possible to sell hosting even cheaper but in this case there would be no profit and money for equipment upgrade, research or installation of new servers. So the conclusion is that without profit web hosting is likely to lose everything.